8 foot perimeter ditch for home defense

Digging an 8 foot deep (15 ft wide) perimeter ditch for home defense may be a bit extreme to keep the burglars out of your house. But adding a 4 ft wall on each side of the ditch would make it very difficult for criminals to enter your property, if the only entry point was a drawbridge. You would create a vertical escarpment of 12 ft.

But there could be legal dangers: the ditch might qualify as a man trap, if a criminal was unlucky and hurt himself while trying to intrude on your property at night and jumped over the first wall, directly into the ditch. Maybe a wall of thorn bushes would be better.

8 foot perimeter ditch for home defense

My home alarm and security system is a full grown German Shepherd that lives in the house, a loaded hideout weapon in every room, and a half-senile Nam combat vet lurking in the shadows. (They took my frags and claymores away, tho.) LOL